[Spoilers ASOS] Love and Hate, Ice and Fire
I’m rereading A Storm of Swords and noticed something, we have this quote from a Bran chapter:
“Why can’t it be both?” Meera reached up to pinch his nose. “Because they’re different,” he insisted. “Like night and day, or ice and fire.” “If ice can burn,” said Jojen in his solemn voice, “then love and hate can mate. Mountain or marsh, it makes no matter. The land is one.”
And in the Davos chapter immediately after:
“What is it you would have me see?” “The way the world is made. The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope. One is black, the other white. There is ice and there is fire. Hate and love. Bitter and sweet. Male and female. Pain and pleasure. Winter and summer. Evil and good.”
It seems very intentional to have these quotes in back to back chapters. I wonder if this is meant to imply that Melisandre or the Red Faith as a whole are misguided in their beliefs