How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from The Breakfast Club.
Quote #1
BRIAN So you're saying you'd subject yourself to the violent dangers of the Chicago streets because your home-life is unsatisfying?
ALLISON: I don't have to run away and live in the street... I can run away and, go to the ocean, I can go to the country, I can go to the mountains. I can go to Israel, Africa, Afghanistan...
Allison hates her home life because her parents totally ignore her—as made evident when her dad drops her off without appearing to acknowledge her at all. So she fantasizes about escaping into some more exotic and adventurous life, though it's unclear if she really plans to act on her fantasy.
Quote #2
BRIAN: Andy... you wanna get in on this? Allison here says, she wants to run away, because her home life is unsatisfying...
ANDREW: Well everyone's home lives are unsatisfying. If it wasn't, people would live with there parents forever...
BRIAN Yeah, yeah I understand. But I think that hers goes beyond, you know, what guys like you and me... consider normal unsatisfying...
ALLISON Never mind... forget it, everything's cool!
Andrew thinks that Allison's home life is unsatisfying in the same way that his is. But it's apparently a deeper issue. We're meant to get that Allison's parents are these toxically self-involved baby-boomers who don't care about their kid at all.
Quote #3
CARL: Aw bulls***, man. Come on Vern, the kids haven't changed, you have! You took a teaching position, 'cause you thought it'd be fun, right? Thought you could have summer vacations off, and then you found out it was actually work, and that really bummed you out.
VERNON: These kids turned on me. They think I'm a big f***in' joke...
Vernon doesn't get that he's the one who's out of touch. None of the kids act in a way that's entirely unexpected—Bender's the only one who's overtly disrespectful toward him. It's really Vernon's own forgetfulness about what it's like to be young that's making him so paranoid about what the kids think of him.