diff --git a/src/parser/tokenizer.ts b/src/parser/tokenizer.ts
index cd9b866df..a5de274aa 100644
--- a/src/parser/tokenizer.ts
+++ b/src/parser/tokenizer.ts
@@ -207,6 +207,14 @@ export class Tokenizer {
     const value = this.readQuoted() || this.readRange()
     if (value) return value
 
+    if (this.peek() === '[') {
+      this.p++
+      const prop = this.readQuoted()
+      if (!prop) return
+      this.readTo(']')
+      return new PropertyAccessToken(prop, [], this.p)
+    }
+
     const variable = this.readWord()
     if (!variable.size()) return
 
diff --git a/src/render/expression.ts b/src/render/expression.ts
index ffe8ff3e5..2f897709b 100644
--- a/src/render/expression.ts
+++ b/src/render/expression.ts
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ export class Expression {
 export function evalToken (token: Token | undefined, ctx: Context): any {
   assert(ctx, () => 'unable to evaluate: context not defined')
   if (TypeGuards.isPropertyAccessToken(token)) {
-    const variable = token.variable.getText()
+    const variable = token.getVariableAsText()
     const props: string[] = token.props.map(prop => evalToken(prop, ctx))
     return ctx.get([variable, ...props])
   }
diff --git a/src/tokens/property-access-token.ts b/src/tokens/property-access-token.ts
index 79512c25e..8da3c9236 100644
--- a/src/tokens/property-access-token.ts
+++ b/src/tokens/property-access-token.ts
@@ -2,13 +2,22 @@ import { Token } from './token'
 import { WordToken } from './word-token'
 import { QuotedToken } from './quoted-token'
 import { TokenKind } from '../parser/token-kind'
+import { parseStringLiteral } from '../parser/parse-string-literal'
 
 export class PropertyAccessToken extends Token {
   constructor (
-    public variable: WordToken,
+    public variable: WordToken | QuotedToken,
     public props: (WordToken | QuotedToken | PropertyAccessToken)[],
     end: number
   ) {
     super(TokenKind.PropertyAccess, variable.input, variable.begin, end, variable.file)
   }
+
+  getVariableAsText() {
+    if (this.variable instanceof WordToken) {
+      return this.variable.getText()
+    } else {
+      return parseStringLiteral(this.variable.getText())
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/test/e2e/issues.ts b/test/e2e/issues.ts
index 972bb1a5f..3a8987f04 100644
--- a/test/e2e/issues.ts
+++ b/test/e2e/issues.ts
@@ -18,4 +18,9 @@ describe('Issues', function () {
     const html = await engine.parseAndRender(template)
     expect(html).to.equal('foo')
   })
+  it('#259 complex property access with braces is not supported', async () => {
+    const engine = new Liquid()
+    const html = engine.parseAndRenderSync('{{ ["complex key"] }}', { 'complex key': 'foo' })
+    expect(html).to.equal('foo')
+  })
 })