"I can't promise to love someone for ever. I can't imagine anyone could promise to love me for ever. I mean, it sounds like a lovely day, but I go to red carpet events all the time and I'm the centre of attention so it's not like I'm looking for that!"
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The red-carpet aside is the real tell. It's funny in a deflating way: the classic rom-com fantasy of "being the center of someone's world" gets reframed as something she already has, repeatedly, under lights, with photographers. That comparison is doing cultural critique without sounding like it: celebrity is a machine that manufactures the appearance of adoration. By invoking it, she distinguishes spectacle from commitment, and hints that what she wants can't be solved by more attention, more glamour, more curated romance.
There's also a quiet defensive posture here. Preemptively rejecting "forever" reads like self-protection in a public life where relationships are consumed as content and failure becomes a headline. The intent isn't to dismiss love; it's to narrow the terms to something less theatrical and more survivable: present-tense devotion, minus the grand promises designed for audiences.
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Brook, Kelly. (2026, January 15). I can't promise to love someone for ever. I can't imagine anyone could promise to love me for ever. I mean, it sounds like a lovely day, but I go to red carpet events all the time and I'm the centre of attention so it's not like I'm looking for that! FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-cant-promise-to-love-someone-for-ever-i-cant-160459/
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Brook, Kelly. "I can't promise to love someone for ever. I can't imagine anyone could promise to love me for ever. I mean, it sounds like a lovely day, but I go to red carpet events all the time and I'm the centre of attention so it's not like I'm looking for that!" FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-cant-promise-to-love-someone-for-ever-i-cant-160459/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I can't promise to love someone for ever. I can't imagine anyone could promise to love me for ever. I mean, it sounds like a lovely day, but I go to red carpet events all the time and I'm the centre of attention so it's not like I'm looking for that!" FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-cant-promise-to-love-someone-for-ever-i-cant-160459/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.












