That shouldn't make the strong weep. Reserve that for figuring out things like qq}$foo{bar\}}. Or somewhat more sanely, something like this: qq{let's have an unbalanced \{ here.}

But that does bring up an important note. If you know that you'll want a quote with, say, unbalanced parens, then use a different balanced delimiter. For instance () above. (For me this mostly comes up with my having to use {} when I want unbalanced parens.)