How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Narrator.Paragraph)
Quote #1
"This," [Sam] said reverently, "is the account of a journey from the Shadow Tower all the way to Lorn Point on the Frozen Shore, written by a ranger named Redwyn. It's not dated, but he mentions a Dorren Stark as King in the North, so it must be from before the Conquest. Jon, they fought giants! Redwyn even traded with the children of the forest, it's all here." (7.Jon.11)
There isn't a history book of Westeros floating around out there, so instead you'll have to patch together the history of this land, using these little tidbits of information. In a way, it's the same thing the characters have to go on.
Quote #2
When last he'd seen Lordsport, it had been a smoking wasteland, the skeletons of burnt longships and smashed galleys littering the stony shore like the bones of dead leviathans, the houses no more than broken walls and cold ashes. After ten years, few traces of the war remained. (12.Theon.47)
The history's cyclical nature isn't just something for the far reaches of the past. Here, the war came and destroyed, but the people of Lordsport managed to turn it around in ten years.
Quote #3
"It may be as you say, blood of my blood," Dany replied gravely, "but he shall have a new name for this new life. I would name them all for those the gods have taken. The green one shall be Rhaegal, for my valiant brother who died on the green banks of the Trident. The cream-and-gold I call Viserion. Viserys was cruel and weak and frightened, yet he was my brother still. His dragon will do what he could not."
"And the black beast?" asked Ser Jorah Mormont.
"The black," she said, "is Drogon." (13.Dany.24-26)
For Dany, the dragons serve as a resurrection in many different ways. Since there are three, she sees them as a kind of return of Aegon the Conqueror's dragons—a good omen seeing as she aims to conquer the Seven Kingdoms, too. Yet she also views them as a surrogate family, an emotional resurrection of those she has loved and lost.