Stories serve to hold together our inner truths in a platter that we can understand, drink and digest. Each of these stories in the book, hold at their core, a difficult truth and very much like the children who need a story to understand their world, these truths needed a story to hold them. As adults our monsters aren't the fictional beasts of a mythological world, but the very real emotions of sadness, regret, anxiety and so on, which need to be told so that we can continue our journey of growing. But to be able to take them in, a story is still useful.