How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from The Breakfast Club.
Quote #1
BRIAN: Um, I was just thinking, I mean. I know it's kind of a weird time, but I was just wondering, um, what is gonna happen to us on Monday? When we're all together again? I mean I consider you guys my friends, I'm not wrong, am I?
ANDREW: No...
BRIAN: So, so on Monday... what happens?
This is the big question. Will Andrew, Claire, and even Bender still be willing to acknowledge friendship with lowly sorts like Brian and Allison? The whole problem is peer pressure—wanting to stay with the clique for security's sake. The movie leaves this question unanswered, but it seems to give hopefulness a stronger basis than it had originally.
Quote #2
CLAIRE: Are we still friends, you mean? If we're friends now, that is?
BRIAN: Yeah...
CLAIRE: Do you want the truth?
BRIAN: Yeah, I want the truth...
CLAIRE: I don't think so.
ALLISON: Well, do you mean all of us, or just John?
CLAIRE: With all of you...
ANDREW: That's a real nice attitude, Claire!
CLAIRE: Oh, be honest, Andy... if Brian came walking up to you in the hall on Monday, what would you do? I mean picture this, you're there with all the sports. I know exactly what you'd do, you'd say hi to him and when he left you'd cut him all up so your friends wouldn't think you really liked him!
ANDREW: No way!
Claire answers Brian's question by claiming that they probably won't still be friends. She cynically thinks that the peer pressure will just be too much—she and Andrew won't be able to resist it. Interestingly, Brian's physics club friends apparently won't put any pressure on him to disavow any kind of friendship with Claire and Andrew. The need to ostracize so-called nerds and weirdos is a virus particular to Claire's and Andrew's cliques.
Quote #3
BENDER: You are a b****!
CLAIRE: Why? 'Cause I'm telling the truth, that makes me a b****?
BENDER: No! 'Cause you know how s***ty that is to do to someone! And you don't got the balls to stand up to your friends and tell 'em that you're gonna like who you want to like!
Even though Bender was calling Brian a dork and a dweeb earlier, now he hotly contests the idea that he wouldn't want to hang out with Brian around his friends. Even though he's a bad boy, he sees himself as being more tolerant than Claire and Andrew. Maybe because he's technically lower down the scale of social status than them, he actually does feel more empathetic to someone like Brian.