diff --git a/html2text/__init__.py b/html2text/__init__.py
index 621fa74..b436bf4 100644
--- a/html2text/__init__.py
+++ b/html2text/__init__.py
@@ -499,7 +499,10 @@ def handle_tag(
 
         def link_url(self: HTML2Text, link: str, title: str = "") -> None:
             url = urlparse.urljoin(self.baseurl, link)
-            title = ' "{}"'.format(title) if title.strip() else ""
+            if title.strip():
+                title = ' "{}"'.format(title.replace('"', '\\"'))
+            else:
+                title = ""
             self.o("]({url}{title})".format(url=escape_md(url), title=title))
 
         if tag == "a" and not self.ignore_links:
diff --git a/test/link_title_with_quotes.html b/test/link_title_with_quotes.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cfa5dc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/link_title_with_quotes.html
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<a href="http://example.com" title="foo &quot;bar&quot; baz">link</a>
diff --git a/test/link_title_with_quotes.md b/test/link_title_with_quotes.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c7747c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/link_title_with_quotes.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+[link](http://example.com "foo \"bar\" baz")