diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.2.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.2.txt
index ecbd6e9b3b288..257cfd41f88dc 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.2.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.19.2.txt
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ Bug Fixes
 - Bug in clipboard functions on Windows 10 and python 3 (:issue:`14362`, :issue:`12807`)
 - Bug in ``.to_clipboard()`` and Excel compat (:issue:`12529`)
 
-
+- Bug in to_json with lines=true containing backslashed quotes (:issue:`14693`)
 
 
 
diff --git a/pandas/io/tests/json/test_pandas.py b/pandas/io/tests/json/test_pandas.py
index ba02e9186f1df..496113659c7a7 100644
--- a/pandas/io/tests/json/test_pandas.py
+++ b/pandas/io/tests/json/test_pandas.py
@@ -962,9 +962,11 @@ def test_to_jsonl(self):
         expected = '{"a":1,"b":2}\n{"a":1,"b":2}'
         self.assertEqual(result, expected)
 
-        df = DataFrame([["foo}", "bar"], ['foo"', "bar"]], columns=['a', 'b'])
+        df = DataFrame([["foo}", "bar"], ['foo"', "bar"], ['foo\\', "bar"]],
+                       columns=['a', 'b'])
         result = df.to_json(orient="records", lines=True)
-        expected = '{"a":"foo}","b":"bar"}\n{"a":"foo\\"","b":"bar"}'
+        expected = ('{"a":"foo}","b":"bar"}\n{"a":"foo\\"","b":"bar"}\n'
+                    '{"a":"foo\\\\","b":"bar"}')
         self.assertEqual(result, expected)
         assert_frame_equal(pd.read_json(result, lines=True), df)
 
diff --git a/pandas/lib.pyx b/pandas/lib.pyx
index b09a1c2755a06..a02a91b8c09b2 100644
--- a/pandas/lib.pyx
+++ b/pandas/lib.pyx
@@ -1111,8 +1111,10 @@ def convert_json_to_lines(object arr):
     length = narr.shape[0]
     for i in range(length):
         v = narr[i]
-        if v == quote and i > 0 and narr[i - 1] != backslash:
-            in_quotes = ~in_quotes
+        if v == quote:
+            if not (i > 0 and narr[i - 1] == backslash and
+                    i + 1 < length and narr[i + 1] != comma):
+                in_quotes = ~in_quotes
         if v == comma: # commas that should be \n
             if num_open_brackets_seen == 0 and not in_quotes:
                 narr[i] = newline