" Are you just about finished there?” Thorn asked. Hal studied him curiously. Thorn boasted about the fact that he bathed and shaved once a month. Even if I don’t need it, he’d say. Yet he always seemed to be in exactly the same grubby, unshaven condition from one day to the next. Surely, Hal thought, there must be some days when he looked clean and tidy and shaven? “Stared at me long enough?” Thorn said brusquely. “Think you’ll know me next time you see me? "

― John Flanagan , The Outcasts (Brotherband Chronicles, #1)