"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."

    This means that throughout your life you will experiance problems and difficulties that will cause you to ask yourself what you are supposed to do and how you are going to accomplish certain things that you need to accomplish to proceed in your life. The second part of this quote means that although you will have questions about your life you will learn the answers through experiance that sometimes takes years to aquire.

    During the period in Janie's life that I have left off on in the book Janie is questioning what love is and if she will be able to obtain it, so she goes with a man and leaves her husband, in the next year of her life she may find out if she will be able to obtain love and happiness in life or if she is going to have to keep looking for the right man to show her what love feels like.