In Bran's chapter: A face swam up at him out of the grey mist, shining with light, golden. “The things I do for love,” it said. Bran screamed. The crow took to the air, cawing. Not that, it shrieked at him. Forget that, you do not need it now, put it aside, put it away.
The answer is in your details.
Bran screamed.
Bran, at the age of 8(or almost 8) was picked up and thrown out of a window by a man grown--a Knight of the King's Guard, Jaime Lannister, brother-in-law to the Victor on the Trident, King Robert the Kingslayer himself.
This is a boy whose greatest dream is to grow up and join the highest order of knights in the lance: The King's Guard.
Remember how you felt when you realized your parents weren't the the paragons you thought they were when you were a child. Multiply that by 1000.
That's how Bran feels...the thing he dreams of being--is, quite simply, a bad guy. He gets naked with his own sister and wrestles with her and throws children out windows.
That's traumatic in and of itself.
What's more traumatic? Falling from a great height at age 8, shattering your back being made a paraplegic by someone who was trying to kill you.
The thought of Jaime freaks Bran out.
But Bran has a role to play. An important role. He's the Last Greenseer. He has powers. But he needs to learn how to use them.
He needs to put aside the petty fear of a particular man; the bitterness of seeing his dreams exposed as something horrific; the soul crushing reality of living life as a cripple and feeling that he is completely helpless; and any wish for vengeance against Jaime and the Lannisters. AT least for now.
Those feelings are valid enough. But they are not going to help them achieve what he was born(or chosen) to achieve.
He's falling and he needs to focus.
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