diff --git a/ginger.cabal b/ginger.cabal
--- a/ginger.cabal
+++ b/ginger.cabal
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 -- documentation, see http://haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/
 
 name:                ginger
-version:             0.10.0.0
+version:             0.10.0.2
 synopsis:            An implementation of the Jinja2 template language in Haskell
 description:         Ginger is Jinja, minus the most blatant pythonisms. Wants
                      to be feature complete, but isn't quite there yet.
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
   -- other-modules:
   -- other-extensions:
   build-depends: base >=4.8 && <5
-               , aeson >=1.4.2.0 && <1.5
+               , aeson >=1.4.2.0 && <1.6
                , aeson-pretty >=0.8.7 && <0.9
                , bytestring >=0.10.8.2 && <0.11
                , data-default >= 0.5
diff --git a/src/Text/Ginger/Parse.hs b/src/Text/Ginger/Parse.hs
--- a/src/Text/Ginger/Parse.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Ginger/Parse.hs
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
                    , runParserT
                    , try, lookAhead
                    , manyTill, oneOf, string, notFollowedBy, between, sepBy
-                   , eof, spaces, anyChar, noneOf, char
+                   , eof, space, spaces, anyChar, noneOf, char
                    , choice, option, optionMaybe
                    , unexpected
                    , digit
@@ -439,15 +439,25 @@
 literalStmtP :: Monad m => Parser m (Statement SourcePos)
 literalStmtP = do
     pos <- getPosition
-    txt <- manyTill literalCharP endOfLiteralP
+    txt <- concat <$> manyTill literalCharsP endOfLiteralP
 
     case txt of
         [] -> unexpected "{{"
         _ -> return . LiteralS pos . unsafeRawHtml . Text.pack $ txt
 
-literalCharP :: Monad m => Parser m Char
-literalCharP =
-    literalNewlineP <|> anyChar
+literalCharsP :: Monad m => Parser m [Char]
+literalCharsP = do
+    dlims <- psDelimiters <$> getState
+    let forbiddenChars =
+          nub . sort $
+            " \t\r\n" ++
+            delimOpenInterpolation dlims ++
+            delimOpenComment dlims ++
+            delimOpenTag dlims
+    (some $ noneOf forbiddenChars) <|>
+      (fmap (:[]) literalNewlineP) <|>
+      some space <|>
+      (fmap (:[]) anyChar)
 
 literalNewlineP :: Monad m => Parser m Char
 literalNewlineP = do