- Shane Bitney Crone: [at Tom's grave] I just remember standing there and thinking that there's one thing that I would say to his parents. Here's what it would be: This is not the monument to your son. He was the monument to you.
- Chelsea Cannell: I think at the end of the day the nurses knew, you know, it's not a gay thing, it's not a straight thing, it's a human thing.
- Shane Bitney Crone: I guess I'll never understand why the ones who are supposed to love him the most fight the hardest to keep him from being who he was. Maybe the greatest thing about Tom is how much he loved them anyway.
- Shane Bitney Crone: It was a four-story fall from the top of the roof to the concrete pavement below. He had just passed his twenty-ninth birthday.