diff --git a/patchelf/launcher/launch.py b/patchelf/launcher/launch.py
index 3a28e514f323e7bf88487c4346f31d4760a39c8e..eef2bc6b75bc5e091ff540330793f42d7658ef71 100644
--- a/patchelf/launcher/launch.py
+++ b/patchelf/launcher/launch.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ from argparse import REMAINDER, ArgumentParser
 from logging import getLogger
 from os import environ, getpid
 from pathlib import Path, PurePath
+from shlex import split
 from shutil import move
 from subprocess import CalledProcessError, run
 from sys import argv, exit
@@ -122,7 +123,7 @@ def execute(
 
 class BazelArgumentParser(ArgumentParser):
     def convert_arg_line_to_args(self, line):
-        return (line.removeprefix("'").removesuffix("'"),)
+        return split(line)
 
 
 def main(exe: Path, *args: str) -> int: