The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.
Lorna Luft

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.
Lorna Luft

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks.
Lorna Luft

The world fell apart. Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy. Why were people shooting all the Kennedys? Had the country gone mad?
Lorna Luft

There are some family traditions I don't want my children to carry on.
Lorna Luft

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.
Lorna Luft

To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.
Lorna Luft

Vincente understood all too well what was happening to Liza; he had gone through it 40 years earlier with my mother.
Lorna Luft

When I got a call from Los Angeles to do the Tonight Show, I considered it more of an inconvenience than an opportunity.
Lorna Luft

When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.
Lorna Luft

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.
Lorna Luft

When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.
Lorna Luft

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.
Lorna Luft