diff --git a/bot.rb b/bot.rb
index 066142c..491012c 100755
--- a/bot.rb
+++ b/bot.rb
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ end
 
 # preserves whitespace intention for quotes, expects array of strings, one line per element
 def make_pretty_quote(quote)
-  quote.map { |line| line.gsub('^^', "          \n").gsub('^', "\n") }.join(' ').strip
+  quote.map { |line| line.gsub('^^', "          \n").gsub('^', "\n") }.join(' ')
 end
 
 token = File.read('./token').strip