How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Marty.
Quote #7
CLARA: Well, the last time I was up here [...] I sat there for an hour and a half, without moving a muscle. Now and then, some fellow would sort of walk up to me and then change his mind. I'll never forget just sitting there for an hour and a half with my hands in my lap. Then I began to cry, and I had to get up and go home.
Why do we get the feeling that Clara's tears are never fake? That they only come when she really just can't take it anymore? Just check out when she's crying silently, sitting watching TV with her clueless, sedate parents. Gets us every time.
Quote #8
MARTY: I can't do that, Ralph, because somebody already brushed her off once tonight.
Remember at the beginning of the movie, when Angie tries to get him to call up that "bigger" girl for a date? It's not just his rejections Marty's sensitive too—it's everyone else's. (Are the downtrodden more likely to be nice?)