Locked Room Murders

Famous quotes containing the words locked, room and/or murders:

“He’ll find no friends here. Nothing but locked doors and darkened windows, locked hearts and bitter hatred. Let that, too, be part of the Frankenstein heritage.”
—Willis Cooper, and Rowland V. Lee. Burgomaster (Lawrence Grant)

“I stood in the empty hall
And watched them come and go
From one room to another,
Old men, old women slow,
Familiar; girls, boys;
I saw my downcast mother....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word of the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1935)