diff --git a/commands.py b/commands.py
index 668c69a..80a66db 100644
--- a/commands.py
+++ b/commands.py
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ def quote(bot: bare.bot, chan: str, name: str, message: str) -> None:
         if q == []:
             q = [f'No results for "{query}" ']
         sel = conf.decode_escapes(
-            str(r.sample(q, 1)).strip("[]'").replace("\\n", "")
+            r.sample(q, 1)[0].replace("\\n", "").replace("\n", "")
         )
         bot.msg(sel, chan)
 
diff --git a/config.py b/config.py
index aae5581..c62d88c 100644
--- a/config.py
+++ b/config.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from typing import Optional, Any
 import bare
 
 load_dotenv()
-__version__ = "v2.0.11"
+__version__ = "v2.0.12"
 npbase: str = "\[\x0303last\.fm\x03\] [A-Za-z0-9_[\]{}\\|\-^]{1,$MAX} (is listening|last listened) to: \x02.+ - .*\x02( \([0-9]+ plays\)( \[.*\])?)?"  # pyright: ignore [reportInvalidStringEscapeSequence]
 su = "^(su|sudo|(su .*|sudo .*))$"
 servers: dict[str, dict[str, Any]] = {
diff --git a/handlers.py b/handlers.py
index 911fd07..b5cffce 100644
--- a/handlers.py
+++ b/handlers.py
@@ -141,9 +141,9 @@ def PRIVMSG(bot: bare.bot, msg: str) -> Union[tuple[None, None], tuple[str, str]
         bot.channels[chan] = 0
         with open("mastermessages.txt", "r") as mm:
             sel = conf.decode_escapes(
-                str(r.sample(mm.readlines(), 1))
-                .strip("[]'")
+                r.sample(mm.readlines(), 1)[0]
                 .replace("\\n", "")
+                .replace("\n", "")
             )
             bot.msg(f"[QUOTE] {sel}", chan)
     return None, None